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This sentence is a part of a joke.

"I'm the sort of brat my mummy is always telling me never to play with."

Can I replace this one with this one below?

"I'm the sort of brat with which my mummy is always telling me never to play."

Thanks

Yes. Or, since even a brat is a person, you could say:

"I'm the sort of brat with whom my mummy is always telling me never to play."

However, remember that this structure is extremely formal. Almost no-one actually uses it in speech, though people would sometimes use it in writing.

Thank you!

The relative pronoun whom was on my mind as well but at length I decided to use which instead of whom because the explanation was related to type of sort and not the person mentioned.

The whom would make a bit of confusion in the sentence I think, wouldn't it?
The mummy isn't telling him all the time not to play with himself, right?

"whom" has the same effect as "which" in this context, just it makes sure people understand you are talking about a person and not an object.